Thank you to all parents and carers who attended our parents evenings last week. It was so good to see so many of you face to face again and to welcome you into our classrooms. I think that we all agree just how much work and progress all of the children have made so far at this mid-point in the year. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Noticeboard

• World Book Day – Friday 3rd March – ‘YOU ARE A READER’
  To celebrate this day which acknowledges the importance of reading for pleasure, we have some exciting events for you to join in with.

Please join us in celebrating World Book Day at Henleaze Infants School on Friday 3rd March. We are very lucky to have a drama workshop for all KS1 classes booked in for this day and we invite you to dress up as a book character and bring in your favourite book. Please ensure all books brought in are labelled with your child’s name and class

• You will find below a grid showing the sessions to be taught each week. They do not exactly follow days as each class has different sessions due to support and PE times being different but it allows you to see the week as a snapshot of sessions. 
• We will always aim to get outside, whatever the weather, as much as possible so children will really need a waterproof coat each day.

A date for your diaries: 

Year 1 Epic Production – The curtain will rise for a performance to parents on… Thursday, 30th March at 9:30 am

Well Being Activity

Monday – Connect – Tell someone something different about them that you like.
Tuesday – Take Notice- The Thing about Spring by Daniel Kirk
Wednesday – Be Active – Joe Wickes Spiderman workout
Thursday – Keep Learning – Resilience postcards
Friday – Give –  Kindness Bingo KS1

English

Text: Yeti and the BIrd

Phonics: Phase 5b – Alternative Pronunciations
Information for Sounds and Words Books:
Children will write in these sounds and keywords – Differentiated where necessary. Please use the books for the children to practise in.

Focus alternatives: ow (snow)  ie (chief)  ea (head)  er (her)
Keywords and Spelling: I’ve, he’s, I’ll, don’t, it’s, I’m 
Grammar: Understand contractions used in common words and how to write. E.g  I’m – I am

Session 1 : 
Think back to our rules of friendship (revisit working wall and think about what advice we could give the yeti. Teacher or TA wear yeti mask and children give him advice. At the end of the advice, have the yeti say that he would like the advice written down so that he can work out what to do next. Children to write letters to the yeti using a scaffold to copy into their books if necessary.

Session 2:   
Look at the pictures of Barbados and compare with the Himalayas in the winter. Write adjectives around pictures to describe. Model writing a sentence with but in the middle to compare and contrast (discuss that this is a compound sentence, we’ve previously used ‘and’ to create these but as we’re comparing, we’re going to use but)

Session 3:  
Discuss- why did the characters come out to play in the end of the story but not at the beginning?
Children to choose an animal from the PPT that they are going to be- discuss with talk partners how their view on the Yeti has changed “First I thought the Yeti was _____ because ___. Now I think the Yeti is ____ because________,” Pictures of Yeti at different points on PPT, write adjectives to describe yeti’s feeling at parts of story and why. Children use these adjectives to describe the yeti at different points in the story. 

Session 4-  WBD Drama Workshop

Reading: Focus: Poetry
Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known, Discussion of rhyme 

• Read as part of a group. Look at front cover details and explore making predictions, using phonetic knowledge to decode unknown words and to extend vocabulary. Read aloud and look at increasing fluency and use discussion as a group to discuss comprehension and start to answer written questions.
• In reading groups, continue to continue on phonic and CEW recognition gaps identified.

Whole Class – Planned story sessions each day.

Maths

Addition and Subtraction within 20

Session 1 : Read write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition and subtraction and equals
Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20 including 0. Solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete resources.

Session 2: Read write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition and subtraction and equals. Represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20. Focus on number bonds to 10 and 20 and using them to help solve addition problems.

Session 3 : Read write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition and subtraction and equals. Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20 including 0. Solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete resources and pictorial representations and missing number problems.

Session 4: Read write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition and subtraction and equals. Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20 including 0. Solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete resources and pictorial representations and missing number problems.

Session 5: Read write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition and subtraction and equals. Represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20. Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20 including 0. Solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete resources and pictorial representations and missing number problems.

Wider Curriculum

PE-  SHINE Outside Session 

Jasmine PE –  Jumping and Landing

Science/Geography Start more formalised Weather Watch.  Also complete the  second height record in books back on sheet already in place form T1 (Long Term Study).

Art Look at artists for inspiration who were/are famous in the movement of pointillism.  To create pictures of Spring and blossom. Recap Bridget Riley, already studied for her line drawings who also created art through this style.

R+WV

Look at the Bible story of  ‘The good samaritan’.

Music

Continue with learning songs for our play and looking at parts for the play and who would like a speaking role. 

PSHE

Being Healthy Our PSHE and some of our science this term is all about what our bodies need to be healthy. This lesson will continue to form our science this week where we look carefully at the importance of a balanced and healthy diet.

Reading Stars

Bluebell Class
Bronze – Leon
Silver – Abby
Gold – Joseph Ivy

Cherry Class
Silver – Felix
Gold – Riya

Cherry Class – Emilia

Bluebell Class – Annabelle